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Inside: Porn on Tumblr is a complicated subject; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2022/09/29/go-nuts-show-nuts/
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Tonight (Sept 29) at 19hPT, I'll be hosting Raymond Craib at LA's Skylight Books to talk about his new book about libertarian exit, "Adventure Capitalism."
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Porn on Tumblr is a complicated subject: Chokepoints, compliance, weakest links.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/109082653265984747
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Hey look at this
* Small Scale LA https://www.smallscalela.com/ (h/t Super Punch
* Authors For Libraries https://www.fightforthefuture.org/Authors-For-Libraries (I signed!)
* Free download of Bruce Sterling's seminal MIRRORSHADES anthology https://www.rudyrucker.com/mirrorshades/ (h/t Richard Kadrey)
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#20yrsago My talk at UT Austin https://web.archive.org/web/20021022184450/https://www.weblogsky.com/2002_09_01_blarchive.html#85498216
#15yrsago Pratchett’s Discworld: a reading-order guide https://www.lspace.org/books/reading-order-guides/
#15yrsago New AT&T terms of service: We’ll cut off your Internet connection for criticizing us https://web.archive.org/web/20071011020653/http://home.bellsouth.net/csbellsouth/s/s.dll?spage=cg/legal/att.htm&leg=tos
#15yrsago Smith-Corona’s voice letters by post: dead media https://vintage-ads.livejournal.com/3792381.html
#10yrsago Why can’t pacemaker users read their own medical data? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oro19-l5M8k
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#10yrsago TV news programs ignore false claims in the thousands of political ads that pay their bills https://web.archive.org/web/20121108201938/http://www.freepress.net/blog/2012/09/24/tv-stations-accept-political-ad-cash-and-leave-viewers-dark
#5yrsago Rich people in California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, and Pennsylvania are to blame for dangerous anti-vaxx surge https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/09/dangerous-anti-vaccine-tweets-have-spiked-from-rich-people-in-just-5-states/
#5yrsago Spinal Tap’s $400m lawsuit against Vivendi will proceed https://web.archive.org/web/20170929190656/https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/spinal-tap-judge-allows-400-million-lawsuit-to-proceed-w506169
#5yrsago Trump’s chief Goldman-Sachs goblin tells America they can buy a new car for $1000 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gary-cohn-trump-tax-plan-new-car_n_59cd50e3e4b0ef0694274690?ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000067
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#5yrsago Architect of Reagan’s tax cuts reminds us that tax cuts don’t stimulate the economy https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/09/28/i-helped-create-the-gop-tax-myth-trump-is-wrong-tax-cuts-dont-equal-growth/
#5yrsago The story of Casa Jasmina: the first automated home built to improve its residents’ lives https://makezine.com/article/home/casa-jasmina-explores-meaning-maker-home-future/
#5yrsago Right-wing thinktank polls UK, find vast majority favour Labour’s policies https://www.theweek.co.uk/88724/uk-voters-favour-socialism-over-capitalism
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#1yrago Wells Fargo can't stop criming: The nation's third-biggest bank is a criminal enterprise https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/29/jubilance/#too-big-to-jail
#1yrago "Are you calling me a racist?": The libertarian case for racism https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/29/jubilance/#tolerable-racism
#1yrago Debts that can't be paid, won't be paid: The first David Graeber Foundation meetup, between Thomas Piketty and Michael Hudson https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/29/jubilance/#debt
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Yesterday's threads: Maintaining monopolies with the cloud; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/109076690348585752
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My latest book is Chokepoint Capitalism (with Rebecca Giblin), nonfiction about monopoly and fairness in creative labor markets.
https://chokepointcapitalism.com
Signed copies available from Book Soup:
https://www.booksoup.com/book/9780807007068
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My latest novel is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books, now in paperback, wherever books are sold.
Signed copies at Dark Delicacies:
https://www.darkdel.com/store/p1840/Cory_Doctorow_-__Attack_Surface_HB_%26_TPB.html#/
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My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."
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Upcoming appearances:
* Discussing "Adventure Capitalism" with Raymond Craib, Skylight Books (LA), Sept 29
https://blog.pmpress.org/events/raymond-craib-and-cory-docrorow-discuss-adventure-capitalism-at-skylight-books-in-los-angeles/
* Regulating the Online Public Sphere: From Decentralized Networks to Public Regulation, Oct 3
https://globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu/events/regulating-the-online-public-sphere-from-decentralized-networks-to-public-regulation/
* Chokepoint Capitalism event, Books and Books (Miami), Oct 12
https://www.booksandbooks.com/event/in-person-chokepoint-capitalism-an-evening-with-rebecca-giblin-and-cory-doctorow/
* Reboot Conference, Lincoln Network (Miami), Oct 13
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reboot-2022-a-conference-exploring-technology-culture-and-politics-tickets-322718568927
* Library Journal Day of Dialog (Zoom), Oct 20
https://www.libraryjournal.com/event/library-journal-day-of-dialog-2022-fall#program
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* Surviving Apocalyptic Economics, with Douglas Rushkoff and Rebecca Giblin, Ottawa Writers Festival, Oct 24
https://writersfestival.org/events/fall-2022-in-person-events/surviving-apocalyptic-economics
* World Ethical Data Forum, Oct 26-28
https://worldethicaldataforum.org/
* Arthur C Clarke Award (DC), Nov 16
https://mailchi.mp/2e2b8a01e992/save-the-date-9142941
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Recent appearances:
* Cultural Capture by Chokepoint Capitalism (This Machine Kills)
https://soundcloud.com/thismachinekillspod/194-cultural-capture-by-chokepoint-capitalism-ft-rebecca-giblin-cory-doctorow
* Billionaires As Policy Failure Factories (Macro N Cheese)
https://realprogressives.org/podcast_episode/episode-190-billionaires-as-policy-failure-factories-with-cory-doctorow
* Where’s My Privacy? (Where's My Jetpack)
https://www.wheresmyjetpack.ca/2022/09/14/doctorow1/
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My first picture book is out! It's called Poesy the Monster Slayer and it's an epic tale of bedtime-refusal, toy-hacking and monster-hunting, illustrated by Matt Rockefeller. It's the monster book I dreamt of reading to my own daughter.
https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poesy-the-monster-slayer/#poesy
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If you're a Medium subscriber, you can read these essays - as well as previews of upcoming magazine columns and early exclusives on doctorow.medium.com.
My latest Medium column is "Oil is Bankrupt (If We Want It): Alberta’s Oil Companies Are the Walking Dead"
https://doctorow.medium.com/oil-is-bankrupt-if-we-want-it-c64fcd1313c2
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